Train DERAILS - Paper Rolls EVERYWHERE

[@Random_Sh9945]

Just your average day on Norfolk southern. Great video V12!

[@roberthuron9160]

Those giant paper rolls,were probably Newsprint,that are used in highspeed presses,for newspapers! Those presses are nowadays,rigged for 4 or 5 color outputs,and are generally computer driven! They are as complicated as any locomotive,but usually not seen,by the public! Anyway,a side note,on an NS derailment! Thank you for your attention! Thank you 😇 😊!

[@paulkoza8652]

Correct.

[@tireballastserviceofflorid7771]

Back in the mid 90s a BNSF train had a massive derailment in Stratford, Missouri, right along I44. And it happened to be loaded with mostly playboy magazines. A few car mags but a whole train car off playboy... People stole those like they were starving. A trooper told me they decided to just let people haul of the mess basically. Took about a week and the mags were gone. It was quite the event it was.

[@Seaboardsystem-t7e]

That’s crazy😂

[@roadmaster720]

just what i always wanted.hide 'em ( all 1,442 ) where my old lady won't find them. sounds like a cheap litter clean up. beavers hanging on the trees and bushes and easy to spot. lmao

[@tireballastserviceofflorid7771]

@roadmaster720 I never figured out why a guy needed a pickup load. People originally were trying to sell them at work and around. Then they just gave them away. Several claimed they used them to light the wood stove. Back before the internet little things like that were big fun.

[@paulkoza8652]

It seems funny to me that magazines would be carried in bulk via rail. Having worked in the paper industry for 8 years, I would think that the magazines would be printed and then shipped in bulk via truck to a distribution center. Rail does not make sense. Now if they were being recycled, that may be a different story.

[@tireballastserviceofflorid7771]

@paulkoza8652 Back then there were less printers. And even less printers willing to bring shut mags. You would be surprised at what rolls on rail on schedule.

[@csxtrainfan319]

Could you cover the bridge collapsing on that train in Oregon?

[@ceciliacicchinelli4797]

It's too big to cover!

[@csxtrainfan319]

So i’m guessing he’s going to wait a few months then, I can wait. I’m just thankful that it was just cars that fell and not locomotives where the crew could’ve gotten hurt

[@Gresham_Portland_Fire_Buff2009]

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[@AlexEigel]

I think that would be a good video to do

[@v12productions]

I'm looking into it.

[@HueyMech]

Wow, I live between Thomaston and Barnesville and this is the first I’ve heard of this. Cater-Parrot trains normally run Tuesday and Thursday so the derailment and/or the holiday must have changed this. The paper may have been for Quad Graphics, a customer CPR serves in The Rock, Georgia.

[@tomrogers9467]

Well, that consist certainly wiped out! The customer will not accept a shipment of damaged paper: it will all likely go back to the mill to be recycled. A crappy situation all around! 😂

[@25mfd]

*it will all likely go back to the mill to be recycled* yep... INSTANT scrap paper

[@tomrogers9467]

@ After some consideration I believe I am wrong. Knowing insurance companies, the insurer will write off the cargo and insist it be taken straight to a landfill. They are seldom interested in salvaging anything, other than car or truck wrecks.

[@johnlang4198]

Crew reported as appearing a bit flushed!!

[@sirblack1619]

I remember a time when NS was rarely in the news for derailments. It was CSX that I would hear about often.

[@stanpatterson5033]

I heard that NS was desperate to become number 1 at something, or maybe it was anything.

[@MickThompson101]

I'm addicted to your videos. Thanks for such great content.

[@v12productions]

Thanks!

[@thomasmackowiak]

Wow! That is going to take some time to clean up. Thank you for capturing this video of the derailment. Please keep us informed if you find any more information about htis derailment. (Posted on 5 January2025 at 1200 CST.)

[@v12productions]

Will do!

[@jamiesuejeffery]

A bridge collapsed in Corvallis, OR over the weekend (I lived in the area for a small time). Please check that one out.

[@AlexEigel]

Yes, I saw it that as I live in the Corvallis areaI think it would make an interesting video, I think the bridge collapsed because of it being on fire a few years ago

[@v12productions]

I'm looking into it.

[@fartloud1234]

I live just a couple of miles from here & view trains in Milner, Barnesville, Forsyth, & Jackson . I may have passed by you at some point during this event . It’s back open with a very slow speed limit . Thanks for the video !

[@CentralVARails]

whats the speed limit

[@fartloud1234]

@, I haven’t heard what it is from a dispatcher on the scanner, but the train that I’ve viewed this morning was crawling at what I would guess to be about 10 mph .

[@v12productions]

Thanks for watching!

[@Corban-ff9gp]

Keep this good work up i love it and its amazing with you explaining what happened and the drone views are the best❤

[@v12productions]

Thank you! Will do!

[@kens.3729]

The Weight of these Massive Rolls will Kill you. The Equipment used to Move these indoors is as Solid as it gets. 🤔👍

[@sirclarkmarz]

I saw one that came loose and broke out of the back of a semi trailer and crushed the hood of a car behind it.

[@Ryantherailfan2014]

I love watching your videos!

[@v12productions]

Thanks!

[@Jeffrey-d5v9b]

V12 perdoctons I like your video I been watching for 3 years now

[@v12productions]

Thanks for watching! More to come!

[@paulkoza8652]

Since it looks like these rolls were covered, I'd think they were either magazine paper or newsprint. TP is usually produced at conversion facilities and not shipped in bulk. They could also be kraft paper for a box plant.

[@billreal76]

Thanks for watching for these railroad mishaps. I'll be interested in seeing the FRA and NTSB (maybe) reports.

[@UNION_PACIFIC_4141]

I loveyour videos!

[@v12productions]

Thanks! Hopefully you saw the one I just uploaded featuring UP 4141.

[@jonglass]

a couple years ago, there was a derailment in W PA, I went by a year later, and the cars were still along side the tracks, with their automobile frame (pickup truck?) loads still inside!

[@rashidsamah155]

At Walmart: "Where is our Giant Toilet Paper, it's haven't arrived!!

[@railfanofGeorgiastate]

Giant toliet papers for Texas

[@AbelG8781]

We do have many paper production plans here

[@roadmaster720]

texas is a ass-wipe state and needs that toilet paper. everything is always bigger in texas.

[@bubbabubba2013]

Its called newsprint which is used in newspaper printing presses.

[@tomroise9426]

Great video. Most likely track alignment failed.

[@povertyspec9651]

They can just block roads with their equipment with no warning signs or flaggers. Highways always bail out railroads.

[@joecarlson6428]

Does NS have a safety problem? seems they had had a number of derailment in the last few months

[@25mfd]

ALL railroads have a safety problem... on average there's at least 3 derailments per day across the US... and that's just the ones the railroads are honest enough to report

[@AlanMullen-w1f]

What a mess 😭 . Thanks

[@rickflair4029]

Norfolk Southern seen to have trains on the ground regularly.

[@ronaldrondeau7870]

thanks

[@AroyalOfficalYT]

When u realise this might be the first derailment of this year

[@AbelG8781]

Nope, already been others this year.

[@AroyalOfficalYT]

@AbelG8781 o

[@99yrsoldman9]

First derailment of the year

[@rickdee67]

Very dangerous being near an excavator being loaded. Please leave lots of room for heavy equipment and be safe.

[@IowaGrandpaTrain]

That must have been a pretty violent derailment for all of that paper to have come out of the cars, unless the derailment cleanup crew pulled it out. My bet is that the cause will be a track defect.

[@cabbagepatch8947]

There have been so many costly derailments!

[@onetwothreeabc]

Average 3 per day in America.

[@richardbrobeck2384]

I bet they were headed to georgia pacific's paper factory !

[@XCELERATIONRULES]

Those rolls are used to make food packaging.

[@Train_Master_4014]

Great-2025 is here and we have our first derailment (ALREADY!?!?)

[@A3Kr0n]

It probably took them a long time to make all those rolls. That sucks.

[@user-vh1uc6in7b]

Wow That Was a Derailment Happening?

[@doxielain2231]

Anyone know why it derailed?

[@fartloud1234]

@@doxielain2231 I honestly do not know, but if I had to guess from some of the rail that I’ve seen …..it would be missing & loose spikes, along with, poor maintenance . I have witnessed sections of rail on this line that were more than 10 feet or longer without anything securing it to the ties . As each car would pass, the rail would rise off of the ties .

[@csxgeorgiasub2449]

​@@fartloud1234 plus the line is dark territory. No ctc

[@christophermattox3972]

That is 35 miles away from my house.

[@jasminekey147]

Just a normal day barnesville

[@jacobdubielak]

Where's Burnsville Georgea located

[@fartloud1234]

@@jacobdubielak Barnesville, Ga is about 45 mins to an hour South of Atlanta .

[@jacobdubielak]

@fartloud1234 OK I was just checking

[@rodneychapman1506]

Those huge paper rolls likes like it was from the paper mill in my hometown they make diapers, cigarette filters, different types of cardboard, surgical masks and all types of paper that you can write on just to name a few of the uses of cellular paper !!!

[@donutman3089]

Hate to sound stupid, but what is that orange car with the really long nose thing doing? How does that work?

[@tomt9543]

The 2 orange machines are what NS refers to as a “smoothing gang”. The long one with the small orange cart that is pushed some distance ahead of it by a long truss beam is a laser alignment/tamper machine. Lasers are pointed at targets on the small cart from the main machine. Those lasers are used to guide the machine to line the track either straight or in a curve. It lifts the track and itself up, shifts the track left or right, tamps ballast under the ties, and sets it all back down. Then moves forward a bit and repeats. I believe GPS is used to tell the machine exactly where the track is supposed to be. The other machine withe wide end is a ballast regulator. The one end has a V shaped blade on it to begin leveling either ballast disturbed by the tamper or new ballast dumped on the tracks. The wide end has a massive broom under the sheet metal covers. The bristles are massive, thick rubber hoses similar to freight car air hoses, that finish leveling the rock by brushing it even with the top of the ties. Typically shrouded in a dust cloud, if you see one coming (unless you’re deaf, they’ll never sneak up on you!), get as far away from the tracks as you can because they sling ballast fast & everywhere!

[@v12productions]

Very good explanation! Thank you

[@donutman3089]

@@tomt9543 Thank you for the explanation, I do appreciate it.

[@tomt9543]

@@v12productions I forgot to mention that those rolls of paper can weigh as much as 5-7,000 lbs each! More if they get wet. Like a massive steam roller, they’ve been known to do extreme damage after falling out the doorway of boxcars! They tend to be loaded in a zig-zag pattern, and a hard coupling or slack action can shove them to one end of the car, the ones by the doorway being pushed sideways and pushing the door off of the track, sometimes ejecting the roll! There have been derailments that wound up with loaded paper cars in waterways, and the water soaked up by the rolls made the cars impossibly heavy to move, and having to be unloaded in the water in some way or another.

[@randywatkins3306]

Well like they say about TEXAS EVERY THING IS BIGGER THIER ! WAS THAT KING CONGS T P ? 😅

[@icrrmr]

Not sure what mill this paper came from, but I hope it's better than the newsprint that comes out of Mississippi. I'd rather run Canadian paper than the rolls I've had from Mississippi....

[@SPUPRR]

speaking of derailments. I still can't believe no video footage was captured of the 150MPH runaway Iron ore train back in 2023. No on board. No track side signal camera. Nothing.

[@v12productions]

Yeah, was that in Australia?

[@SPUPRR]

@v12productions no. The Union Pacific train in California.

[@vuurvrproductions4656]

wild

[@producerk8247]

lucky it's not toxic chemicals being burned on purpose, setting off a cloud of cancer particles, then trying cover it up by saying everything is fine.

[@Nderak]

uphill slow downhill fast

[@SKOL-4141]

Norfolk southern what’s your function? Derailing train lol this is a joke

[@Paulftate]

America 1st ..... maga baby maga 👍

[@Biblesmakegoodkindling]

Enjoy the Russian front.

[@Paulftate]

Something wrong with your brain housing group